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- Without a double sun, one living and the other dead, no creation is possible (n. 163-166)
- The end of creation has form [existat] in outmosts, which end is that all things may return to the creator and that there may be conjunction (n. 167-172)
Part Third
- In the Spiritual World there are atmospheres, waters and lands, just as in the Natural World; only the former are spiritual, while the latter are natural (n. 173-178)
- There are degrees of love and wisdom, consequently degrees of heat and light also degrees, of atmospheres (n. 179-183)
- Degrees are of a twofold kind, degrees of height and degrees of breadth (n. 184-188)
- Degrees of height are homogeneous, and one is from the other in succession like end, cause, and effect (n. 189-194)
- The first degree is that all in everything of the subsequent degrees (n. 195-198)
- All perfections increase and ascend along with degrees and according to them (n.199-204)
- In successive order the first degree makes the highest, and the third the lowest; but in simultaneous order the first degree makes the innermost, and the third the outermost (n. 205-208)
- The outmost degree is the complex, containant and base of the prior degrees (n. 209-216)
- The degrees of height are in fullness and in power in their outmost degree (n. 217-221)
- There are degrees of both kinds in the greatest and in the least of all created thing (n. 222-229)
- In the Lord the three degrees of height are infinite and uncreated, but in man the three degrees are finite and created (n. 230-235)
- These three degrees of height are in every man from birth, and can be opened successively; and, as they are opened, man is in the Lord and the Lord is in man (n. 236-241)
- Spiritual light flows in with man through degrees, but not spiritual heat, except so far as man flees from evils as sins and looks to the Lord (n. 242-247)
